L'abbatiale
de Wimborne, dans le Dorset,
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Saintes Cuthburge et
Quenburge
Cuthburge, abbesse de
Wimborne, et sa soeur Quenburge (VIIIe siècle)
Première abbesse de Wimborne, fille, épouse et mère de rois, Cuthburge (ou Cuthburh) abandonna son époux pour devenir moniale à Barking sous l'autorité de Sainte Hildelite. Elle fonda avec sa sœur Quenburge (ou Cwenburh) un monastère à Wimborne dans le Dorset d'où plusieurs religieuses partirent en l'Allemagne rejoindre Saint Boniface.
Exigeante avec elle-même, douce avec les autres, elle mourut vers 725.
Voir aussi: Wimborne Minster - A Brief History - site en anglais
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/12671/Saintes-Cuthburge-et-Quenburge.html
Also
known as
Cuthburg
Cuthburga
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Sister of King Ina
of Wessex in England;
sister of Saint Cwenburgh
of Wimborne. Benedictine nun at Barking
Abbey in Essex, England where
she was a friend of Saint Hildelith.
With Cwenburgh,
she founded a monastery in
Wimborne, Dorset, England,
and served as abbess there.
Many of her Wimborne sisters worked
as missionaries to Germany.
c.725
Additional
Information
Book
of Saints, by the Monks of
Ramsgate
Lives
of the Saints, by Father Alban
Butler
books
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
other
sites in english
fonti
in italiano
MLA
Citation
“Saint Cuthburgh of
Wimborne“. Congregations of the Faith. CatholicSaints.Info.
7 January 2023. Web. 31 August 2025.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-cuthburgh-of-wimborne/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-cuthburgh-of-wimborne/
Article
CUTHBURGA (Saint) (August
31) (8th century) A sister of King Ina of Wessex, betrothed to Oswy of Northumbria,
but with his consent released from her obligation and admitted to the Religious
Life. She was trained thereto by Saint Hildelid at Barking Abbey. She
afterwards founded the great Abbey of Wimborne in Dorsetshire, where her sister
Saint Quenburga was associated with her. Wimborne was the school in which
Saints Lioba, Thecla and other great and saintly women prepared for their lives
of Christian devotedness and usefulness. Saint Cuthburga passed away A.D. 724
or thereabouts, and her festival is marked in several Liturgical Calendars.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Cuthburga”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 17
October 2012.
Web. 31 August 2025.
<http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-cuthburga/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-cuthburga/
St. Cuthburga
Cuthburga The first abbess of
Wimborne, St.
Cuthburga was well-connected: she was the daughter, wife, and mother
of kings. She left her husband to become a nun under St. Hildelitha at Barking.
Sometime after 705, Cuthburga and her sister, St. Quenburga, founded a double-monastery
at Wimborne, from which a band of missionary nuns left
for Germany, where they worked with St. Boniface. Hard on herself but kind to
others, Cuthburga died c. 725.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=961
August 31
St. Cuthburge, Queen,
Virgin, and Abbess
THIS saint was
sister to king Ina, and was married to Alfred, who was crowned king of the
Northumbers in 685. At her suit he allowed her to remain always a virgin, and
to devote herself to her heavenly spouse in the monastery of Barking in Essex.
She afterwards founded that of Winburn, in Dorsetshire, which she governed,
giving herself up totally to fasting, watching, and holy prayer; humble both to
God and man, meek and tender to others, but always austere to herself. She
never ceased to exhort her sisters to live up to the dignity of spouses of the
King of heaven, to keep their hearts free from all affection to the things of
this world, and ever to sigh after their heavenly home. Being purified by a
long and painful illness, and strengthened with the viaticum of the precious
body of Christ, she passed to everlasting bliss on the 31st of August, in the
beginning of the eighth century. She is commemorated in the Sarum Breviary. See
William of Malmesbury in king Ina, Leland, Harpsfield, Alford, and Cressy.
Rev. Alban Butler
(1711–73). Volume VIII: August. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
Also
known as
Queenburga
Coenburga
Kuniburga
Quenburga
3
September on some calendars
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Daughter of the viceroy
Conrad of Wessex; sister of King Ina
of Wessex in England;
sister of Saint Cuthburgh
of Wimborne. Benedictine nun.
With Cuthburgh,
she founded a monastery in
Wimborne, Dorset, England,
and served as abbess there.
Many of her Wimborne sisters worked
as missionaries to Germany.
Additional
Information
books
Book of Saints, by the Monks of
Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
websites
in nederlandse
MLA
Citation
“Saint Cwenburgh of
Wimborne“. CatholicSaints.Info. 1 September 2019. Web. 31 August 2025.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-cwenburgh-of-wimborne/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-cwenburgh-of-wimborne/
Santa Cutburga di Wimborne o Widow Regina di Northumbria, badessa
Festa: 31 agosto
+725
Santa Cutburga (Cuthburga) è una badessa che visse a cavallo tra i secoli VII e VIII, figlia di Cenred, signore di Wessex.
Sorella di Santa Quenburga e del re Ina di Wessex, sposò il dotto e devoto re Aldfrid della Northumbria dal 685 al 705).
Santa Cutburga è ricordata nella “Cronaca” anglo-Sassone e il cronista Guglielmo di Malmesbury ci racconta alcuni dettagli sulla sua vita.
Dopo avergli dato due figli, il re Aldfrid, permise a santa Cutburga di abbracciare la vita religiosa ed entrare in un monastero.
Divenne monaca nel monastero di Barking, nelle vicinanze di Londra, all’epoca in cui era badessa Santa Ildelita.
Nel 705 con sua sorella Santa Quenburga, fondò il doppio monastero del tipo anglo-sassone, a Wimborne nel Dorset dove fu nominata badessa. Il convento era strettamente claustrale.
Santa Lioba monaca, riferisce che anche ai prelati era vietato entrare negli alloggi delle suore e santa Cutburga parlava con loro attraverso un piccolo sportello.
Gli agiografi descrivono Cuthburga come austera con se stessa, gentile con gli altri e ferma nella preghiera e nel digiuno.
Si ritiene che santa Cutburga sia morta nell’anno 725.
Nel monastero fondato dalle sorelle santa Cutburga e Santa Quenburga furono formate molte monache missionarie che andarono ad evangelizzare la Germania.
La festa per santa Cutburga nella diocesi di Brentwood è stata fissata nel giorno 31 agosto, anche se in alcuni testi, come nel “Celtic and Old English Saints”, compare nel giorno 3 settembre.
Autore: Mauro Bonato
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/98109
† ca
735 Queenburga van Wimborne
Queenburga (ook Coenburga, Kuniburga of Quenburga) van
Wimborne, Kent, Engeland; prinses & stichteres & kloosterlinge (&
abdis?); † ca 735.
Feest 31 augustus
(tezamen met Cuthburga) & 3 september.
Zij was een dochter van
onderkoning Conred van Wessex. Te oordelen naar wat de oude documenten over
haar vertellen, moeten we concluderen, dat haar leven zich goeddeels afspeelde
in de schaduw van haar zuster Cuthburga.
Ze was getrouwd geweest
met koning Aldfrith van Northumbrië. Maar ze was weer van hem gescheiden om in
te kunnen treden bij de benedictinessen van Barking in de tijd dat Hildelith (†
712; feest 24 maart) daar abdis was. Later zou zij tezamen met Cuthburga
klooster Wimborne stichten. Aanvankelijk was het een dubbelklooster, waar de
vrouwen veel groter in aantal waren dan de mannen. Het lijkt er zelfs op dat er
twee vrouwenkloosters naast elkaar hebben bestaan. De beide zussen zouden elk
de leiding hebben gehad over één van beide kloosters. Er werd zo streng
vastgehouden aan de scheiding tussen mannen en vrouwen, dat zelfs een bisschop
het vrouwenklooster niet mocht betreden.
Vanuit dit klooster
zouden later Lioba en Thecla naar Bonifatius gaan in Duitsland, om daar op hun
beurt nieuwe vrouwenkloosters te stichten en leiding te geven.
[115a; Dries van den Akker s.j./2007.07.26]
© A. van den Akker
s.j. / A.W. Gerritsen
SOURCE : https://heiligen-3s.nl/heiligen/09/03/09-03-0735-queenburga.php
